Posts by Sacha
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Sometimes just the recording is enough.
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Can't recall what thread this was raised in by Rosemary, but IHC's service arm has just been fined over $150k for letting that 15-year old disabled boy die in the bath.
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I'm talking about boomers compared with the current retirees, I share high hopes for current children but they won't be in power for several decades at least.
In the meantime, I guess the legendary boomer self-regard (yes, a big generalisation) may actually be helpful as they campaign and vote in large numbers for improved access investment and suchlike. They may however downplay the needs of younger disabled people (like schools, for example).
The system has relied for ages on meekness to dilute demands for change and rewarded potential activists for being polite and moderate. I don't see that continuing forever. The change could be stormy.
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
We accepted this gratefully.
And that is exactly what the system relies on - our widespread compassion undermines any commitment to professional standards or pay. Good luck over the next decade or two as the current oldest generation leaves us and their more selfish children take up the mantle.
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As Lamia Imam has been saying on Twitter since yesterday: if Snowden is making stuff up, why would he be facing espionage charges?
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'disinformation, categorically disproven, fabricated, self-serving'...
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Paul Campbell,
it exposes how ridiculous such reassurances are
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Hard News: Haphazardly to war, in reply to giovanni tiso,
The commitment it would take to genuinely protect the innocent represents a price no-one in the international community is willing to pay
Cutting off the supply of funding and weapons would hurt the big nations far too much. Unthinkable.
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“Sunni, Shia and Kurds harmoniously sharing power and working together in Iraq.”
If you genuinely want that outcome, you send skilled peacemakers and teachers and counsellors and engineers, not soldiers.
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Hard News: When the fast track seems a…, in reply to Ross Mason,
Thanks, Ross. I had no idea.
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